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Beth Tonks Psychology A-Level English 29 cards

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  1. 1AIM: MILGRAM (1963)To investigate the process of obedience by testing how far an individual will go in obeying an authority figure, even when the command breaches the moral code that an individual should not hurt another person against his will.
  2. 2RESEARCH QUESTIONS: MILGRAM (1963)Why do people obey authority?
    What are the conditions that foster obedient behaviour?
    What are the conditions that foster independent behaviour?
  3. 3AIM: BOCCHIARO ET AL. (2012)To find out whether people who disobey or blow the whistle have different characteristics from those who obey.
  4. 4RESEARCH QUESTIONS: BOCCHIARO ET AL. (2012)Who are the people who disobey or 'blow the whistle'?
    Why do they choose to reject social influence and follow a challenging moral path?
    Do they have personal characteristics which differ from those who obey?
  5. 5AIM: PILIAVIN ET AL. (1969)To investigate, in real life conditions, the impact on helping behaviour of a number of different variables:
    i) type of victim
    ii) race of the victim
    iii) someone setting an example of helping behaviour
    iv) number of witnesses
  6. 6RESEARCH QUESTIONS: PILIAVIN ET AL. (1969)i) Would it make a different if he was perceived to be drunk or ill?
    ii) Would it make a difference if he was black or white?
    iii) Would it make a difference to the behaviour of those witnessing the emergency if someone 'modelled' helping behaviour in front of them?
    iv) Would there be a relationship between levels of helping behaviour and the number of people witnessing the emergency?
  7. 7AIM: LEVINE ET AL. (2001)To look at helping behaviour in a wide range of cultures, in large cities around the world in relation to four specific community variables:
    i) population size
    ii) economic well-being
    iii) cultural values (individualism/collectivism/simpatia)
    iv) walking speed (pace of life)
  8. 8RESEARCH QUESTION: LEVINE ET AL. (2001)Are strangers more likely to receive help in some cities than in others and, if so, why?
  9. 9AIM: LOFTUS & PALMER (1974)To investigate the effects of language on memory.
    To investigate whether leading questions distort an eyewitness memory of an event.
  10. 10AIM: GRANT ET AL. (1998)To investigate context-dependent memory effects on both recall and recognition of newly learned information
    To investigate whether learned information is remembered better in a matching environment than in a non-matching environment
  11. 11RESEARCH QUESTION: GRANT ET AL. (1998)Do people remember better if they are remembering information in the same context as when they learned the information?
  12. 12AIM: MORAY (1959)1) To test Cherry's findings that participants who shadowed a message presented to one ear were ignorant of the content of a message simultaneously presented to the other ear.
    2/3) To investigate other factors that can affect attention in dichotic listening.
  13. 13AIM: SIMONS AND CHABRIS (1999)To confirm that inattentional blindness occurs in a realistic, complex situation,a video recording of events, and that is sustained.
    To identify the effect of a number of variables on the rate of inattentional blindness.
  14. 14AIM: BANDURA ET AL. (1961)To demonstrate that learning can occur through observation of a model and that imitation of learned behaviour can occur in the absence of that model.
    To find out whether aggressive behaviour is learned through imiation.
  15. 15RESEARCH QUESTION: BANDURA ET AL. (1961)If aggressive behaviour is learned by observation, do observers imitate the specific aggressive act or do they just become more aggressive?
  16. 16AIM: CHANEY ET AL. (2004)To show that the use of a novel asthma spacer device, the 'Funhaler', whilst not compromising drug delivery can provide positive reinforcement which leads to improved adherence in young asthmatics.
  17. 17RESEARCH QUESTION: CHANEY ET AL. (2004)Can behaviourist techniques, such as operant conditioning and positive reinforcement, be used to improve the treatment of children with asthma?
  18. 18AIM: KOHLBERG (1968)To show how his research supports his stage theory of moral development, by showing how as young adolescents develop into young manhood, they move through the distinct levels and stages of moral development proposed by Kohlberg.
  19. 19AIM: LEE ET AL. (1997)To see if Chinese and Canadian children would rate truth-telling and lie-telling differently in pro-social and anti-social settings.
  20. 20AIM: SPERRY (1968)To investigate the effects of the de-connection and show that each hemisphere has different functions.
    To map lateralisation of brain function and show that information in one side of the brain is not accessible to the other side.
  21. 21RESEARCH QUESTIONS: SPERRY (1968)What happens when the two halves of the brain are disconnected?
    Do the hemispheres perform different functions?
    Does each hemisphere have its own memories, perceptions and concepts?
  22. 22AIM: CASEY ET AL. (2011)To find out if participants who were low delays on the Marshmallow Test at age four, and also reported low self control on psychometric measures in their twenties and thirties would show more errors on a Go/No-Go task if the stimuli were 'hot' than those participants who has shown consistently high self control.
  23. 23RESEARCH QUESTIONS: CASEY ET AL. (2011)Does the ability to delay gratification as a child predict:
    i) the ability of adults in their 40s to control impulses
    ii) predict sensitivity to social cues (happy faces) at the behavioural and neural level?
  24. 24AIM: BLAKEMORE & COOPER (1970)To limit the visual experience of kittens to one orientation - either vertical or horizontal stripes - and to compare the behavioural consequences of the restricted visual environment on the kittens.
    To investigate the neurophysiological effects on the neurones on the kittens' visual cortex.
  25. 25AIM: MAGUIRE ET AL. (2000)To investigate the differences in the brain, especially in the hippocampus, in London taxi drivers, and to establish whether, compared to controls, differences in hippocampal volume would be observed
    To further investigate the functions of the hippocampus in spatial memory
  26. 26AIM: FREUD (1909)To investigate the causes of and treat a phobia of horses in a 5 year old boy
    To provide evidence in support of his theory of psychosexual development
  27. 27AIM: BARON-COHEN ET AL. (1997)To see if high functioning autistic adults had a Theory of Mind
    To develop a more sophisticated test of Theory of Mind for adults with autism
    To investigate why adults with autistic spectrum disorders have problems with social relationships
  28. 28AIM: GOULD (1982)To prove that psychology could be as rigorous a science as physics, by being just as focused on numbers and quantification
    To identify the problematic nature of psychometric testing in general and the measurement of intelligence in particular.
  29. 29AIM: HANCOCK ET AL. (2011)To examine the language characteristics of psychopaths when describing their violent crimes on:
    i) their instrumental nature
    ii) their unique material and socio-emotional needs
    iii) their emotional deficit

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A-Level Psychology (CORE STUDIES) Flashcards on Aims / Research Questions, created by Beth Tonks on 30/12/2016.
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